U+5F42 "彂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
彂
U+5F42 "彂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that functions as a variant of the more common character 發, meaning to emit, to issue, to develop, or to arise. Historically, 彂 appears in classical texts and calligraphy, where its structure combines components related to a bow and perhaps motion or impact, suggesting an original association with shooting an arrow or sending something forth. In modern usage, it is rarely employed in everyday writing, having been largely replaced by the standard form 發 in Traditional Chinese and 发 in Simplified Chinese, but it retains significance for scholars studying ancient inscriptions, historical documents, or stylistic variations in East Asian orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5F42 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 彂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 彂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBD 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5F42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005F42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5f42 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-4122 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-4122 |
| kCangjie | TCNOK |
| kCantonese | faat3 |
| kDefinition | issue, dispatch, send out, emit |
| kHanYu | 21001.071 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21001.071 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0360.301 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-384D |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-4122 |
| kJapaneseKun | HANATSU TSUKAWASU ABAKU OKORU |
| kJapaneseOn | HOTSU HATSU |
| kKangXi | 0360.301 |
| kKorean | PAL |
| kMandarin | fā |
| kPhonetic | 1589* |
| kRSUnicode | 57.10 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |